Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did not they overtake your fathers?"Then they repented and said, 'Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"
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In Context
5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie,nor the son of man, that he should repent.Has he said, and will he not do it?Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
Numbers 33:56It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you."
Deuteronomy 28:20The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
2 Kings 15:12This was the word of the Lord which he spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." So it came to pass.
2 Chronicles 36:19They burnt God's house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.
Isaiah 3:8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen;because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord,to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 1:2-7
Zechariah This prophet was colleague with the prophet Haggai, and a worker together with him in forwarding the building of the second temple ( Ezra v. 1 ); for two are better than one. Christ sent forth his disciples two and two. Zechariah began to prophesy some time after Haggai. But he continued longer, soared higher in visions and revelations, wrote more, and prophesied more particularly concerning Christ, than Haggai had done; so the last shall be first: the last in time sometimes proves first in dignity. He… Read the whole commentary →